Cube plushie sewing

ART JOBS USING SEWING• Fashion

Designer• Toy Designer• Etsy Craft Maker• Pop Artist

• Tailor or Seamstress

Fashion Designer

What is Etsy?

Claes Oldenburg

Present1976

Soft Viola, Claes Oldenburg 2002

SOFT SCULPTURES• SOFT SCULPTURES

were created as a reaction to the idea that CRAFTS such as sewing were not considered at the level of Fine Art

• He is a noted POP ARTIST because his sculptures were COMMON EVERDAY ITEMS

Is it art or a craft?

Geometry & Art!3D versus 2D

Square Cube SphereCircle

Rectangle Rectangular Prism Triangle Pyramid

Do you want attachments?• Attachments

are– Ears– Arms– Legs– Tails

No attachmentsPainted on details

Make a paper template!If you add attachments with paper and tape! Your creating a

pattern!

Ears!

Tail

Feet and hands!

ATTACHMENTS!

STOMACHSIDE SIDE

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Sewing Pattern Cutting1. Find a pattern

and fabric2. Cut out the

paper pieces3. Trace the pieces

onto your fabric4. Cut out all your

pattern pieces

Needle Safety• No Poking any other student or

yourself• You have you to “check out” a needle

like you were checking out a book and “check it in” before the end of class

• If you lose or borrow a needle Mrs. Rimko needs to know! We have kindergarteners in this room and the may find it and hurt themselves with it.

Thread your needle

Pull the strings to even lengths

Knot one of the ends of the thread

Tying the Knot http://www.wikihow.com/Thread-a-Needle-and-Tie-a-Knot

Running Stitch

Sewing that can attach or bring pieces of fabric

together

Overcast Stitch

Can only bring two pieces together on the edge of fabrics

Wrap loop around the needlePull the needle

1 2

3 Finishing off your thread with a Knot

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